Biography

The Postal Service is a long-distance collaboration between Death Cab For Cuties Benjamin Gibbard (Seattle, Washington, USA) and Strictly Ballroom, Figurine and Dntels Jimmy Tamborello (b. Silverlake, California, USA). As the duos moniker suggests, they work via mail, sending discs of semi-completed recordings via the US postal service between Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. The project was initiated after Tamborello invited Gibbard to record the vocal for The Dream Of Evan And Chan on Dntels album, Life Is Full Of Possibilities.

The duo initially planned only an EPs worth of recordings but this soon mutated into an album, Give Up. Tamborello began mailing his collaborator CD-Rs of electronic music, which Gibbard would manipulate via his computer and add guitar, drums, keyboards, and vocals before returning the track to Tamborello for approval and/or further tinkering. Inspired by 80s...